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FENDER POR RAILWAY GARS. No. 520,857. Patented June 5, 1894.

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JOHN E. MCBRIDE,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORKLN. Y.

FYEN DER FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFIGATION forming partbi Letters Patent No. 520,857, dated June 5,1894.

Application led February 24, 1894. Serial No. 501,326. [No model.)

in Fenders for Railway-Cars, of which thee following is a specification.

This invention relates to fenders for streetcars, which are designed tolprevent injury to persons and animals that may be in the path of thecars movements, and the present improvements are a modification of theconstruction and arrangement shown in my application for Letters Patent,filed February 20, 1894:, Serial No. 500,855.

The objects of the invention are to supply a fender which will cover therunning rails of the track when the car rounds curves, aswell as when itis moving in a straight line, and which will always retain the samevertical position with relation to the road-bed, regardless of thevertical tiltings of the car. These objects are secured by theconstruction and arrangements hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 represents in sideelevation, a portion of a street railway-car provided with the improvedfender, which is shown in vertical section. Fig. 2, shows a plan view ofthe road-bed of a cable-road, and of the fender, and its connectionswith the car to which it is to be attached. Fig. 3 represents a verticalsection of the fender and one of the arms or rods by which it ispivotally attached to the car. Fig. 4 shows a vertical section of thecentral rails of a cable-road, and the surrounding road-bed, and a frontview of a guide-wheel or roller in engagement with such rails. Fig. 5shows an under view of two wheels, or means for guidingthe fender byengagement with the central rails of a cableroad.

D represents the car, beneath the platform of which the fender G ispreferably located, although it may have any other proper position, asthe more advanced one indicated by dotted lines, at G', Fig. 1. Thefender may be of any desired shape, but it is shown as having the formof an arc of a circle longitudinally, and as curvilinear transversely.It is composed of a suitable frame, G2, which may be wholly or partiallycovered with sheet-metal, or other suitablegmaterial, but is representedas provided with a series of longitudinal slats, or strips, or tubes ofelastic material, G3. The fender is connected to the `car-body by tworods or bars E, which at their rear ends are universally-jointed to thecar in any preferred manner, so as to allow of lateral and verticalswingings of the bars, and consequently of the fender. As shown in Figs.l and 8, the pivotal-joint is of the ball-and-socket variety, the ballsB,being upon the inner ends of the bars E, and the sockets B2, whichsurround the balls, being a part of the studs or standards B which arerigidly secured to the car-body. I Attheirv forward ends, the bars E arerespectively pivoted, by bolts P, to tangs or plates A, which projectrearwardly from the upper part of the fender-frame, and adownwardly-projecting arm, E2, secured to each bar E, is pivoted, by abolt P, to a tang or plate, A2, extending rearwardly from the lower partof the fenderframe, the bolts P being in the same vertical line on eacharm, as particularly shown in Fig. 3. -From this it will be understoodthat A the fender can swing from side to side, the bars E having aparallel movement, and that any vertical tiltings of the car will notdisturb the vertical relation of the fender to the track.

When applied to a cable-car, the fender is lpreferably supported by awheel or roller, W,

which rests upon the central rails, I I, which wheel has a peripheralflange, W', that enters the slot, H, or space between said rails. Thewheel, W, is mounted to turn on a frame T, which is pivoted, at T', to aplate, F, attached to the fender-frame and extending rearwardlytherefrom. A follower-wheel, W3, is also mounted to turn on the frame T,and to enter the slot, H, the office of said wheel being to keep thepivot T ,vertically above the slot, H, at all times. Thesewheels'constitute the rail-engaging means which guide the fender in thedirection of the track, at all times, and keep it overlying therunning-rails, R, not only when the car is moving in a straight line,but when it is rounding curves. They laterally-swinging movement of thefender when a curve is rounded in one direction, is illustrated bydotted lines in Fig. 1, where the curved parallel lines, Il', indicatethe cu'lved walls of the slot between the central rai s.

In place of the means above described for guiding the fender, or inaddition thereto, fianged Wheels, X X', shown by dotted lines 1n Fig. 2,may be mounted on the fender, near its ends, to engage therunning-rails, R, and thereby guide the fender in the direction of saidrails at all times. On a car other than of the cable variety, theWheels, W W3, would be omitted, and the Wheels X X', would be used tosupport and guide the fender, as will be readily understood.

The weight of the fender may be made sufficient to keep it in thedesired relation to the road-bed--that is, slightly raised above thesame, but I prefer to assist gravity in this respect by employingsprings, S, respectively attached to the car-body at one end, and at theother to arms, E3, projecting rearwardly from the bars, E.

Although I prefer to use the two parallel bars, E, to connect the fenderwith the carbody, yet it will be seen that a single baruniversally-jointed at its rear end to the car in the central linethereof, and pivoted at its front end to the fender midway of itslength, may be employed for the purpose. In this arrangement, but onespring, S, would be needed.

The car may be, and preferably is furnished with a fender at each end,the particular shape and location of which may be any thatissuitablee-without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with a car, of a fender mounted thereon and connectedthereto by a bar o1' bars pivoted at one end to the fender anduniversally-jointed to the car at the other end, whereby the fender mayhave vertically and lateral1y-swinging movements with relation to thecar, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination With a car, of a fender mounted thereon and connectedthereto bya bar or bars pivoted at one end to the fender anduniversally-jointed to the car at the other end, and a spring or springsfor pressing the fender toward the road-bed, substantially as set forth.

8. The combination with a car, of a fender mounted thereon and connectedthereto by a bar or bars pivoted at one end to the fender anduniversally-jointed to the car at the other end, and rail-engaging meansmounted on the fender, which guide the fender in the direction of thetrack, substantially as set forth.

' ft. The combination with a car, of a fender mounted thereon andconnected thereto by a bar or bars pivoted at one end to the fender anduniversallyjointed to the car at the other end, and rail-engaging meanspivotallymounted on the fender, which guide the car in the direction ofthe track, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with a car, of a fender mounted thereon and connectedthereto bya bar or bars pivoted at one end to the fender anduniversally-jointed to the carat the other end; rail-engagingmeansmounted on the fender, which guide the fender in the direction of thetrack; and a spring or springs for pressing the fender toward theroad-bed, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with a car, of a fender mounted thereon and connectedthereto by a bar or bars pivoted at one end to the fender anduniversallyjointed to the car at the other end; and a frame pivoted uponthe fender and carrying a flanged wheel and a followerwheel, forengaging the slotted, central rail of a cable-road, and thereby guidingthe fender in the direction of the track, substantially as set forth.

JOI-IN E. MCBRIDE.

Witnesses:

CEAS. W. FORBES, W. H. GRAHAM.

